Weekly Times January 21, 2011

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Language Arts

Spelling – al as a prefix and suffix –

Rules:

A suffix is a group of letters added at the end of a word to change its meaning.

A prefix is a group of letters added at the beginning of a word to change its meaning.

Adding the suffix –al to a word changes a noun into an adjective because it means “having the character of”

Ex. history becomes historical

4. The prefix al- at the beginning of the word means (all or toward).

Ex. always although almost

WORDS:

already, although, almost, also, always, altogether, factual, historical, mechanical, historical, natural, artificial

Reading – Starting new novels

Saving the Stegosaurus by Rex Stone

Dawn of the Dinosaurs by Mary Pope Osborne

Read alouds: Lulu and the Brontosaurus and A Cartoon History of the Earth: The Birth of the Earth

Math

Review of addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing

Word problems

Adding and subtracting money

UNITS of INQUIRY: Birth of the Earth

Where We Are in Place and Time

ICT- The Big Bang Theory and the Birth of the Earth

Reading on how the Earth was formed

Activity on the early history of the Earth up to life on Earth

History Channel video “The Birth of the Earth”

Field Trip to the Museo Civico di Zoologia – “The Origins of Life”

Making “fossils”

The Time Dial of Prehistory

Announcements and Notices

Friday, February 4, 2011 – Field Trip to the INGV (Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia), report cards sent home electronically

Monday, February 14, 2011 – Valentine’s Day (more information to follow)

February 21-25 – February Break - School is closed

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